Biden’s DHS Is Accused Of Being Weaponized Against Online Speech

[loam]

I feel a sadness for anyone that cannot speak their mind unless behind a cloak of anonymity. I can sort of understand their predicament, but I cannot identify with it.

In the Real World, locally, I'm no different than I am here. I speak my mind when and where I want, right there in front of God and everybody. I pull no punches. Some folks here love me, and some hate me, but few who know me are indifferent... and they all accept the way I am, and respect it, even if grudgingly.

It must be a terrible feeling to live in fear of simply speaking your mind. Fear or reprisals, or fear of what someone might think... or whatever other fear would motivate a person to hide in the shadows to do their sniping at mere social constructs.

I feel sadness for them, but at the same time I think that if that is what it takes for them to speak their mind and be counted, then some shadow should be afforded to them to allow them to express themselves and be counted.

Whatever it takes is what they need, and I'll do what I can to help them stand up. No voivce should be silenced out of fear.


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I'm fortunate in that I have been some what insulated from that predicament for many years now. That wasn't always the case.

There were points in my career where even a loose association with a site like TOS or this one would have been career ending...or dare I say it, even MSM news. I'll say no more there. But just the simple association would have been enough to crucify me. (And no, I'm not a government spook.)

It must be a terrible feeling to live in fear of simply speaking your mind.

A part of the human condition since the dawn of time.

If we hadn't been phoning it in with respect to the constitution these past several decades (perhaps longer), things might be different. But I guess that's like complaining water is wet. It is what it is.